This was beautiful to read | How to capture a parent's hidden story: Advice from writers and memoirists www.npr.org/2024/07/11/g...

📚 The new school year is starting in many places. If you’re a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now 🧵 Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.

The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.

Well, now I wanna buy a beer from fancy Clancy.

“The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him.They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.” —Zora Neale Hurston

“‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice’ …It doesn’t bend on its own. History tells us we often have to apply force needed to make sure that the arc gets where it needs to go. This is one of those times.”

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

"Federal immigration raids in Los Angeles are scaring families away from school, and the new year hasn’t even started yet." www.the74million.org/article/so-m...

#FFdata at #ASA2025: Tomorrow (2pm) at the Hyatt Regency the FFCWS Data Support Team will host a workshop, "What's New with the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study? Exploring 22 Years of Data with the Data Support Team." Don’t miss it! tinyurl.com/yc2kh6ar

Learn about the Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame ‪@notredame.bsky.social‬ & other sociology depts in the 2025 ASA Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology. Now completely online and free for ASA members. Also available for a fee to nonmembers. https://bit.ly/ASAGradGuide‬‬‬‬

Today we kick off the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting, where sociologists share knowledge & new directions in research & practice. Read ASA President Adia M. Harvey Wingfield’s welcome message: bit.ly/3IzyR6a.

This snapshot of the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting shows the numerous presenters who will be sharing sociological knowledge during the meeting. That’s 1,055 presenters on Saturday; 880 on Sunday; 948 on Monday; and 679 on Tuesday.

📣 Calling all demographers! We are hiring at Notre Dame! Apply here: www.google.com/url?q=https:...

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

This, James Baldwin’s birthday, is the perfect day for this passage from NO NAME IN THE STREETS. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have," Baldwin wrote in his essay No Name in the Street.

Postdoc opening in education for the upcoming year: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/592...

Will the first day of school be your first as a teacher? 🧑‍🏫 🌟 If so, this resource collection is for you! #EduSky #NewTeachers

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

If this stands, the extent of impact is arguably immeasurable. The slow trickle of funding from NIH, NSF, & other federal agencies this year from the obstruction & impoundment of funding has already cut short not just projects & careers, but lives. This decision is magnitudes worse.

The damage that is being done will not be reverted through the pendulum swing of simple party politics. They have destroyed the administrative state. They have created a secret police. With camps. They have placed apparatchiks in lifetime positions.

Venus Williams and her health insurance: 4 things to know : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time www.science.org/content/arti...

There is hope for us 45 year old women out there 😉

An excellent description of what it is like to work as a professor in the US right now.. musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

Notre Dame keeps hiring! Director of Research Programs for the Center for Educational Research and Action Due date to apply: August 1 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityOf...

Always cool to find your work profiled. daily.jstor.org/what-happens...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Is there a legitimate or technical reason why MRI machines have to sound like a mix of a fire alarm, tornado siren and those terrible toy light up tiger swords they sell at zoos? Like how can anyone expect you to actually stay still or calm in that cacophony?!?!

Our Annual Review of Sociology article on conceptualizing and measuring structural racism is now available. Get it while studying racism is still legal. @tyson-brown.bsky.social @pahoman.bsky.social (also, lots of great articles are in this volume). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The 2026 Dem Primary season is gonna be fucking lit

Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ

The new Pop Center at Notre Dame (populationanalytics.nd.edu) is hiring an associate director!Interested? See call: careers.nd.edu/search-caree...

Listen to the Ideas #Podcast with Asad L. Asad and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Network editor, Caleb Zakarin. They discuss how undocumented immigrants in the United States navigate surveillance and punishment, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins. hubs.ly/Q03sKGLP0

This weekend at #NoKings I witnessed an 8-year-old girl leading a crowd of adults in call-and-response chant… And saw images of Red State Democrats protesting in small far-flung towns with joy and grit and passion. And it occurred to me: Small things can be big inspiration. 💙

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

I think all they’ve really managed to do this week is encourage more people to turn out for the No Kings protests. Being underwater on every issue before July is pretty impressive.

I'm deeply, deeply saddened by the passing of Richard Alba @alba42.bsky.social. He was such a great scholar and source of support to me - blurbing my first book, writing for me on multiple occasions, and generally discussing ideas (incl when we didn't agree - which is rare for scholars these days).

Got to listen in person to Kiese Laymon @kiese.bsky.social read from his forthcoming book *Good God* today and needless to say for those 45 minutes I was transfixed, moved, humbled, and showered in beauty. What a gift. Thank you Kiese!

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next."

What challenges face sociologists today? Where do we find unity/dissent? What’s the future for our field? Join the conversation at the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting. W/ David Takeuchi, @lindsayowens.bsky.social, @alondra.bsky.social, @daniellaurison.bsky.social, & Catherine Moran. bit.ly/RegisterASA25

Excited for this leadership team!!

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

When the Department of Ed misses a Congressionally mandated deadline for Condition of Ed and uploads a blank doc like a panicked undergrad. Journalists have a crucial role in holding what’s left of the Department of Ed accountable.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Sections & Communities are a core nexus for connection w/in ASA. Learn about ways to get involved w/ these key cohorts during the Section & Community Open House at the Annual Meeting! Details at https://bit.ly/ASA25Program & register today for early-bird rates! bit.ly/RegisterASA25 #ASA2025

Sociologists are taking action! But we need more voices in more places. Visit our action center to tell your representatives what is important to you! https://www.asanet.org/public-engagement/asa-action-center/

The 2023 #SCOTUS Students for Fair Admissions decision ending affirmative action in college admissions was a precursor to the ongoing attacks on DEI. In a new review I explain affirmative action's demise through the lens of cultural framing. 1/4 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I feel like there's an analogy here for unrecognized faculty service...